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90/10 Principle

By: Steven Covey

Have you read this before?

Discover the 90/10 Principle. It will change your life (at least the
way
you react to situations). What is this principle?

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided
by
how you react. What does this mean?

We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot
stop
the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which
throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We
have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You
determine
the other 90%.

How? By your reaction. You cannot control a red light. However, you can
control your reaction. Do not let people fool you; YOU can control how
you react.

Let us use an example: You are eating breakfast with your family. Your
daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have
no control over what just happened. What happens next will be
determined
by how you react. You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for
knocking the cup over.

She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse
and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the
table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change
your
shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying
to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus. Your
spouse must leave immediately for work.

You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are
late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit zone. After a
15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at
school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye.
After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your
briefcase. Your day has started te rrible. As it continues, it seems to
get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home, When you arrive
home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and
daughter.

Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning. Why did you have a bad
day?

A. Did the coffee cause it?
B. Did your daughter cause it?
C. Did the policeman cause it?
D. Did you cause it?

The answer is "D".

You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted
in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day. Here is what could have
and should have happened.

Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently
say,
"Its ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time". Grabbing a
towel, you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your
briefcase,
you come back down in time to look through the window and see your
child
getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minute s early and
cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you
are having.

Notice the difference?

Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different.

Why? Because of how you REACTED.

You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other
90% was determined by your reaction.

Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle.

If someone says something negative about you, do not be a sponge. Let
the attack roll off like water on glass. You do not have to let the
negative comment affect you! React properly and it will not ruin your
day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired,
getting stressed out etc.

How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic?

* Do you lose your temper?
* Pound on the steering wheel? A friend of mine had the steering
wheel
fall Off)
* Do you curse?
* Does your blood pressure skyrocket?
* Do yo u try to bump them?

WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars
ruin
your drive. Remember the 90/10 principle, and do not worry about it.

You are told you lost your job. Why lose sleep and get irritated? It
will work out. Use your worrying energy and time into finding another
job.

The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why
take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control
over what is going on. Use your time to study, get to know the other
passenger.

Why are stressed out? It will just make things worse. Now you know the
90-10 principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You
will lose nothing if you try it.

The 90-10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this
principle.

The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress,
trials, problems and heartache.

We all must understand and apply the 9 0/10 principle.

It CAN change your life!

                             

   Some Basic definitions..


Engineering College : Place where you're punished  for getting good HSC
marks.


Babe : After two years in Engineering, anything  remotely female qualifies
for that title...


Senior : Guy who got ragged as junior and wanna get some payback...


Fresher : Guy who has to ask where the canteen is...


Really Dumb Fresher : Guy who asks a senior where the canteen is.


Really Really Dumb fresher : Guy who follows the senior to the canteen.


Ragging : The unfortunate fate of the previous idiot.


Evasive action : Watch the juniors when any seniors come nearby. (No one
runs faster than a fresher. NO ONE.)


Lectures : Waste of time..physical presence is a must...only meant for
sleeping, completing assignemtns & general TOPO


Tutions : What you take when you don't waste enough time....


Professor : Person paid to put students to sleep.


Vernac Prof : Unusual variant of previous individual who comes packaged
with his own brand of English ("Now you check me our journal." "You Out get
from class." "Are you Understand, Beta?" )


Practicals : 60 to 90 minutes in which you watch the girls do your
experiment, and usually destroy a considerable array of lab equipment.


Hopeless Practical : The practical in which there are no girls in your
group simply look blankly at each other, fiddle with the equipment, and
finally copy the readings. from the girls of
course...).


                        The Truth about exams....


Timing...when ur non enginering GF/BF is free to enjoy while u slog with
submisisons & exams


Irony : The guy who copied your entire paper passes and you flunk.


Critical Calculation : Summing up the marks you attempted worth in the
exam...


Year Drop : Makes dad homicidal.


Reverification : A cruel joke. (results of which come after you give the
re-exam).

HI Girls do not be angry

HI Guys Just Enjoy

Beer VS Women

Sorry!!! Just for JOke, not my views

> 1. A beer is always wet, a woman isn't.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 2 . Beer is horrible when it is hot.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for women!
>>
>>
>> 3. A cold beer satisfies you.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 4 . If you come back home smelling beer, your wife can get angry at
>> you. If you come back home smelling women, your wife will get angry
>> for sure and she might even not talk to you again.
>>
>> Draw! (it depends on your point of view...)
>>
>>
>>
>> 5. 10 beers in a night and then you can't drive. 10 women in one
>> night and you don't have to drive anywhere!
>>
>> 1 point for women!
>>
>>
>> 6 . The older beer is, the better.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 7. Many beers can make you see UFO's. Many women can make you see
>> God!
>>
>> 1 point for women!
>>
>>
>> 8. If you ask yourself how the next woman will be, you're normal. If
>> you ask yourself how the next beer will be, you're alcoholic.
>>
>> 1 point for women!
>>
>>
>> 9. For a beer you pay taxes.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for women!
>>
>>
>> 10. If you take a second beer, the first one doesn't get angry.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 11. You can always be sure that you're the first one "opening" a
>> beer.
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 12. If you shake a beer, after a while it calms down by itself.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 13. You know exactly how much a beer costs.
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>> 14. A beer doesn't have a mother.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
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>> 15. You can do it if you want, but beer won't ask you to hug her for
>> half an hour after.
>>
>>
>> 1 point for beer!
>>
>>
>>
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>> FINAL SCORE: Beer beats women. (9 to 6)
>>
>>
>> If you're a woman and getting angry, think that a beer wouldn't.
>>
>> Another point for beer! Final score: 10 to 6.
 

 Thought for the day                                                      
The only man I know who                                                    
 behaves sensibly is my                                                    
  tailor; he takes my                                                      
measurements a new each                                                    
    time he sees me.                                                      
                                                                           
  The rest go on with                                                      
 their old measurements                                                    
  and expect me to fit                                                    
         them.   

                                                          
  George Bernard Shaw                                                      
                                                                           
                                                 

Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....


" When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat
our vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't

To realize
The value of a sister
Ask someone
Who doesn't have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident...

To realize
The value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when

The Story....

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....


but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy


grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a


software where he could search for his gf through the web..


Things went as planned...


n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!



It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a


word with this guy n took over this application,



This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year,


which we today know as ORKUT .





The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN . Yes its named after him only. Today he


is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is


expected to b the richest person by 2009.

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to


monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day &



                                        about 85,000 scraps!!!



Some other Cool Facts about this guy:


* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.


* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.


* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if


anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.

* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.


* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.


* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.


* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.


* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.


* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.


* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time

you view your friend's friend-list.




"Moral of the story"?

LOSE U R GIRLFRIEND AND MAKE BILLIONS !!!!